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- In the Judeo-Christian tradition, the neo-Babylonian empire ruler ... During the first centuries of the "Old Babylonian" period ...19 KB (2,994 words) - 05:24, 26 August 2023
- The Babylonian exile (or Babylonian captivity) is the name generally given to the deportation and exile of the Jews of the ancient Kingdom of ...18 KB (2,780 words) - 05:25, 26 August 2023
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- During the geonic period (589-1038 C.E.), the Babylonian academies ... The title of gaon came to be applied to the heads of the two Babylonian ...8 KB (1,324 words) - 06:54, 18 April 2024
- the age of 18, near the beginning of the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem. Jeconiah/Jehoiachin ... was removed from office by the Babylonian army of King Nebuchadnezzar ...11 KB (1,755 words) - 04:29, 31 July 2022
- Gedaliah (died c. 585 B.C.E. or later) was the Jewish governor of Judah under Babylonian rule after the destruction of the Kingdom of Judah in ...11 KB (1,829 words) - 21:06, 20 July 2021
- further qualification, refer to the Babylonian recension. ... "Talmud Yerushalmi"), and the Babylonian Talmud (Hebrew: תלמוד ...8 KB (1,227 words) - 06:37, 18 April 2024
- Babylon. He became the first king of the Babylonian Empire, extending Babylon ... Though many cultures co-existed in Mesopotamia, Babylonian culture ...13 KB (1,918 words) - 17:00, 21 January 2024
- He donated his valuable collection of Babylonian, Sabaean, and Sassanian ... languages of the empire: Old Persian, Babylonian, and Elamite. Rawlinson ...10 KB (1,581 words) - 23:12, 8 February 2022
- Nabonidus (Akkadian Nabû-nāʾid) was the last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, reigning from 556-539 B.C.E. Although his background is uncertain ...17 KB (2,715 words) - 22:59, 10 November 2022
- the heavens is being denoted. In the old-Babylonian period, i.e. before Hammurabi ... remained an inherent part of the Babylonian-Assyrian religion. It also ...10 KB (1,744 words) - 21:24, 24 March 2024
- prominence as a member of the triad of Babylonian gods, together with An ... the deep heavens. However, in later Babylonian mythology, it was the younger ...12 KB (1,974 words) - 18:55, 13 February 2024
- script languages: Old Persian, Elamite, and Babylonian. ... by side, Old Persian and Elamite, and Babylonian above them. The inscription ...13 KB (1,988 words) - 10:27, 26 September 2023
- king of Babylon near the end of the Babylonian exile of the Jews. There ... perils. Bel was an important figure of Babylonian idolatry as depicted in ...11 KB (1,817 words) - 10:29, 26 September 2023
- inspired great devotion in the ancient Babylonian empire, as evidenced by ... of some lost story about Isthar and the Babylonian deity Marduk. Their names ...12 KB (2,015 words) - 03:03, 8 March 2024
- The Babylonian exile (or Babylonian captivity) is the name generally given to the deportation and exile of the Jews of the ancient Kingdom of ...18 KB (2,780 words) - 05:25, 26 August 2023
- In the Judeo-Christian tradition, the neo-Babylonian empire ruler ... During the first centuries of the "Old Babylonian" period ...19 KB (2,994 words) - 05:24, 26 August 2023
- The earliest trigonometry, used by the Babylonian astronomers and their Greek successors, was based on chords of a circle. A chord of length ...6 KB (932 words) - 09:12, 28 January 2024
- Mesopotamia that fed into the later Babylonian Civilization. Women appear ... 1000 B.C.E. when it was replaced by the Babylonian language which was used ...13 KB (2,078 words) - 07:18, 16 June 2023
- Samaritans and Jews divided after the Babylonian exile because the Samaritans ... However, when the Jews returned from Babylonian exile, they rejected the ...12 KB (1,793 words) - 22:25, 26 September 2023
- the cities of Mesopotamia. However, Babylonian civilization did not reach ... established. There are no extant Babylonian texts that mention the ...11 KB (1,741 words) - 20:50, 21 January 2024
- merged with that of Ishtar. In later Babylonian astral mythology, Sin, ... In the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh, it is with Shamash's blessing ...13 KB (2,138 words) - 12:22, 27 January 2023
- In Babylonian mythology, Tiamat is one of the foundational principles of the universe known as a maelstrom of dark, roiling seawater. ...16 KB (2,560 words) - 23:20, 30 April 2023
- L. W. King, Chronicles Concerning Early Babylonian Kings (London: Luzac and ... A late Babylonian chronicle says: In his old age, all lands revolted ...10 KB (1,482 words) - 02:26, 21 April 2023
- numbering 42,360, who returned from the Babylonian Captivity in the first ... Zerubbabel was born during the period of Babylonian exile. If the ...14 KB (2,215 words) - 05:52, 13 June 2023
- of Hermes was an "Oriental deity of Babylonian extraction" represented ... However, more recent classical scholarship makes no mention of Babylonian ...14 KB (2,126 words) - 10:15, 25 November 2023
- in "Judah in the first part of the Babylonian crisis, from around 608 ... * Koch, Klaus. The Prophets: The Babylonian and Persian Periods. Philidelphia: ...13 KB (2,086 words) - 00:31, 30 July 2023
- of Babylon and the emergence of the new Babylonian Empire. The Greeks knew ... which was the capital of the first Babylonian Empire and still served ...17 KB (2,527 words) - 22:19, 8 November 2021
- to "Judah in the first part of the Babylonian crisis, from around 608 ... of Judah in the early part of the Babylonian period (ca. 650-598 B.C.E.). ...16 KB (2,522 words) - 00:09, 19 November 2023
- of the Haggadic material in the Babylonian Talmud together with commentaries ... of the Haggadic material in the Babylonian Talmud together with commentary. ...13 KB (1,890 words) - 17:38, 27 January 2024
- Though the Babylonian/Assyrian god Dumuzi was known by a variety of ... As the names of Babylonian gods often offer insight into the character ...16 KB (2,459 words) - 04:00, 27 February 2023
- of his students or different rabbis. The Babylonian Talmud asserts that Elisha ... day journey). Both the Jerusalem and the Babylonian Talmuds agree here, and ...20 KB (3,151 words) - 09:06, 30 December 2021
- Ezekiel during the first stages of the Babylonian exile in the early sixth ... Ezekiel taught that people of Judah must not resist the Babylonian ...21 KB (3,455 words) - 07:29, 17 November 2023
- B.C.E.), but also various Old Babylonian fragments exist. The story ... Enki, who often takes the side of mankind in Babylonian mythology ...11 KB (1,791 words) - 19:31, 30 November 2021
- There are two versions of the Talmud—the Babylonian Talmud and the ... the fourth century in Palestine. The Babylonian Talmud was compiled about ...32 KB (4,820 words) - 03:57, 27 February 2023
- to inspired the Jews returning from the Babylonian Exile with a view of history ... of the kings of Judah to the time of the Babylonian exile, and concluding with ...18 KB (2,889 words) - 21:52, 10 December 2023
- held out against a series of raids by Babylonian, Syrian, Moabite, and Ammonite ... *Babylonian exile *Jeremiah ==References== * Avery, Ben, and Harold ...12 KB (1,854 words) - 20:02, 4 November 2023
- term karabu, Akkadian term kuribu, and Babylonian term karabu; the Assyrian ... In some regions the Assyro-Babylonian term came to refer in particular ...13 KB (1,935 words) - 18:30, 8 December 2023
- Enûma Eliš (also transliterated Enuma Elish) is the Babylonian or Mesopotamian creation epic, composed probably in the eighteenth century B ...15 KB (2,485 words) - 18:58, 13 February 2024
- Enki was a major deity in Sumerian mythology, later known as Ea in Babylonian mythology. He was originally the chief god of the city of Eridu ...18 KB (3,043 words) - 08:34, 5 February 2022
- of the Persian Empire, and inscribed in Babylonian (Akkadian) cuneiform on ... Cyrus credited the inspiration of the Babylonian deity Marduk for his policy ...15 KB (2,435 words) - 02:16, 6 July 2023
- the Medes and went on to conquer the Babylonian Empire. He wrote the Cyrus ... again without any resistance from the Babylonian armies. Herodotus explains ...22 KB (3,584 words) - 07:28, 12 January 2024
- ==Babylonian abacus== Babylonians may have used the abacus for addition ... Some scholars point to a character from the Babylonian cuniform which ...17 KB (2,684 words) - 07:14, 13 June 2023
- The Ammonites under King Baalis helped the Babylonian monarch Nebuchadrezzar ... political attitude. They assisted the Babylonian army against the Jews ...18 KB (2,883 words) - 07:34, 25 July 2023
- writing continued through the end of the Babylonian and Assyrian empires, although ... By 1851, Hincks and Rawlinson could read 200 Babylonian signs. They ...19 KB (2,782 words) - 06:45, 12 January 2024
- === Babylonian sources === Earlier Greek astronomers and mathematicians were influenced by Babylonian ...39 KB (6,174 words) - 21:25, 30 January 2024
- into their new lives and pray for the Babylonian king (29). Judah if the nation fought back against Babylonian aggression. Jeremiah found ...14 KB (2,273 words) - 19:59, 27 June 2023
- of Jerusalem, and after the subsequent Babylonian captivity of the Kingdom ... that seem to indicate the end of the Babylonian captivity which lasted ...11 KB (1,671 words) - 07:35, 15 April 2024
- ===The Babylonian Captivity=== [[Image:Avignon-place-palais.jpg|thumb ... of the long Avignon Papacy, the "Babylonian captivity" (1309–77 ...17 KB (2,612 words) - 11:07, 19 December 2023
- "under the shadow of the rising Babylonian power," ... * Koch, Klaus. The Prophets: The Babylonian and Persian Periods. Philidelphia: ...11 KB (1,657 words) - 18:53, 9 November 2022
- writer or writers active during the Babylonian exile or shortly afterward. ... details primarily with the period of the Babylonian exile, which began a century ...20 KB (3,308 words) - 00:11, 19 November 2023
- [[Image:Queen of the Night (Babylon).jpg|thumb|250px|This Babylonian ... of a more warlike and male-dominated Babylonian culture. This being a relatively ...12 KB (1,904 words) - 19:19, 13 February 2024
- eclipsed even that of the heads of the Babylonian academies of the Sura and ... had formerly been connected with the Babylonian yeshivas. He became the ...14 KB (2,372 words) - 17:56, 14 December 2023
- *The Babylonian Talmud, c. 600 C.E. *The minor tractates (part of the Babylonian Talmud) ==The Midrash== ...11 KB (1,477 words) - 16:16, 7 December 2022
- prophet Zechariah, who prophesied after the Babylonian exile during the rebuilding of the Temple of Jerusalem. The eleventh of the 12 books of ...16 KB (2,596 words) - 13:06, 13 February 2024
- were too complacent and willing to adopt Babylonian customs. ... their captivity, but to submit to the Babylonian yoke. Only repentance and ...21 KB (3,408 words) - 01:46, 23 June 2022
- treaties and covenants made by the Babylonian kings. His attribute of ... About 550 B.C.E., Nabonidus, the last of the neo-Babylonian kings ...12 KB (1,952 words) - 08:45, 9 October 2022
- Biblical references also resemble the Babylonian creation epic Enûma Elish ... *[http://www.sacred-texts.com/ane/enuma.htm Enuma Elish (Babylonian ...15 KB (2,465 words) - 22:16, 25 October 2022
- * Koch, Klaus. The Prophets: The Babylonian and Persian Periods. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1984 (original 1982). ISBN 0800617568. ...12 KB (1,877 words) - 10:18, 2 March 2024
- Old Testament. The book is set during the Babylonian Captivity, a period when many Jews had been forcibly exiled to Babylon. It revolves around the ...20 KB (3,175 words) - 07:25, 17 November 2023
- A Jewish inscription from the post-Babylonian period in Elephantine, ... Antu or Antum is a Babylonian goddess, and seems to be a precursor ...17 KB (2,817 words) - 19:01, 26 July 2023
- Jerusalem Talmud—in addition to the Babylonian version—which had been ... His glosses on the Babylonian Talmud and Shulchan Aruch are known ...13 KB (1,989 words) - 16:13, 13 February 2024
- and the Mediterranean came under the new Babylonian monarchy. The Babylonian ... again urged cooperation with the Babylonian power, which he saw as ...27 KB (4,065 words) - 16:48, 25 February 2024
- of sacrifices in Jerusalem after the Babylonian captivity (Ezra 3:2-4). Nehemiah, writing after the Babylonian exile, reported a lengthy lapse ...19 KB (2,871 words) - 21:43, 26 February 2023
- foreign religious influences during the Babylonian exile. Conversely, Samaritans ... Assyrian invasion of 722 B.C.E. and the Babylonian campaigns culminating in ...22 KB (3,530 words) - 01:14, 21 April 2023
- The Book of Ezra is a book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament. It is a record of events occurring at the close of the Babylonian ...13 KB (2,057 words) - 07:29, 17 November 2023
- exiles returned to Jerusalem from the Babylonian Exile in the fifth century ... of Israel, from Its Beginnings to the Babylonian Exile (1960), in which ...17 KB (2,550 words) - 16:34, 29 January 2024
- by Joshua. During the early days of the Babylonian exile, the prophet Ezekiel ... probably blended into the Arabic, Babylonian, and Anatolian civilizations ...16 KB (2,552 words) - 17:17, 26 July 2023
- or star-worshipers), Etruria, and Babylonia. The Babylonian necromancers were called Manzazuu or Sha'etemmu, and the spirits they raised were called ...13 KB (1,977 words) - 16:08, 11 November 2022
- The Babylonian creation myth Enuma Elish begins with a description ... rituals until at least the time of the Babylonian exile. The story of Eve ...13 KB (2,025 words) - 23:49, 12 February 2022
- *George, Andrew The Epic of Gilgamesh: the Babylonian Epic Poem and ... *George, Andrew. The Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic - Introduction, Critical ...20 KB (3,264 words) - 07:45, 24 January 2023
- quot; found in the ancient pre-Babylonian Exile Hebraic tradition. The one remaining passage in Aetius’ Historiography reads: As our soul, being ...7 KB (1,024 words) - 19:08, 26 July 2023
- going back thousands of years to the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi Code of Hammurabi. Under this ancient Babylonian code (created ca. 1780 ...15 KB (2,419 words) - 00:40, 9 January 2023
- ===Middle Ages and Avignon era (the "Babylonian captivity") === The period when antipopes were most numerous was during the struggles ...20 KB (3,042 words) - 06:35, 31 July 2023
- a political liability or possibly even a Babylonian agent. In any case, Jeremiah ... last king. Having been appointed by the Babylonian authorities, Zedekiah was ...32 KB (5,493 words) - 08:37, 31 July 2022
- absorbed into Judaism during the Babylonian Exile, and subsequently ... in angels was learned during the Babylonian captivity. According to ...17 KB (2,515 words) - 02:14, 9 January 2023
- The origin of the almanac can be traced back to ancient Babylonian ... The modern almanac differs from Babylonian, Ptolemaic and Zij tables ...14 KB (2,079 words) - 08:15, 23 July 2023
- with them both Rabbinic Judaism and the Babylonian Talmudic culture that underlies ... in the early sixth century B.C.E., "Babylonian Jews" had always been ...20 KB (2,890 words) - 04:05, 18 August 2023
- stemming from the Babylonian captivity and the invasion of the Assyrian empire. It is well known that Jesus was born as a Jew, and grew up in ...7 KB (1,044 words) - 07:15, 13 June 2023
- though it has been suggested that he may have been a Hellenized Babylonian. ... equations used by Diophantus go back to Babylonian mathematics. For this reason ...16 KB (2,463 words) - 15:25, 29 January 2024
- Ancient Egypt. One of his brothers joined the Babylonian army and fought under Nebuchadrezzar II. It is believed that Alcaeus eventually returned to ...8 KB (1,188 words) - 05:05, 17 June 2023
- ===Babylonian (Epic of Gilgamesh)=== In the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh the story of the Flood is told ...29 KB (4,785 words) - 17:53, 11 November 2023
- has been lost for modern civilization. Babylonian writing was used internationally ... cultural spheres, for example, in the Babylonian Empire with the Hammurabi ...15 KB (2,330 words) - 07:19, 23 August 2023
- of Judah in the years after the Babylonian captivity. It is historically regarded as a continuation of the Book of Ezra, such that many Jewish ...20 KB (3,125 words) - 21:11, 17 May 2023
- of Babylon, which led to the Babylonian exile of Israel. ... * Koch, Klaus. The Prophets: The Babylonian and Persian Periods. Philidelphia: ...15 KB (2,366 words) - 00:28, 19 November 2023
- degrees, minutes and seconds comes from the Babylonian's base sixty system of numeration. The first recorded use of trigonometry came from ...19 KB (2,702 words) - 16:52, 2 May 2023
- , Hammurabi (who established the Old Babylonian state), Ashur-uballit I ... were used until the end of the Neo-Babylonian period. Old Aramaic, which ...54 KB (7,940 words) - 19:20, 25 March 2024
- First Temple, because the dangers of Babylonian conquest were imminent ... in Ge'ez (which is taken from pre-Babylonian captivity Hebrew), inscriptions ...29 KB (4,905 words) - 02:49, 15 August 2023
- between Amenhotep III and the Babylonian king Kadeshman-Enlil shows ... of the period. Letters from the Babylonian king Kadashman-Enlil I ...34 KB (6,076 words) - 02:40, 24 July 2023
- Jeremiah urged accommodation with the Babylonian Empire, which he saw as ... Jonah – Probably written after the period of Babylonian exile, this ...39 KB (6,126 words) - 09:20, 28 June 2022
- second of arc are sexagesimal subunits of the Babylonian unit. One Babylonian unit = 60° = π/3 rad ≈ 1.047197551 rad. *The grad, also called ...20 KB (3,182 words) - 18:07, 27 July 2023
- Empire in the eighth century B.C.E. Babylonian domination in the seventh ... Philistine cities became part of the Neo-Babylonian Empire. Jeremiah 47 is ...22 KB (3,372 words) - 03:59, 24 November 2022
- and the captivity, the fifth between the Babylonian period and the time of ... was followed by the Exodus; the Babylonian captivity was followed ...29 KB (4,535 words) - 16:10, 29 December 2020
- *The Second Temple was built after the return from the Babylonian ... the sanctuaries of Mount Hermon, and the Babylonian idea of the divine abode ...30 KB (4,700 words) - 05:38, 27 February 2023
- as his relationship with the other angels. The Babylonian Talmud mentions Metatron in three places: "Sanhedrin" 38b, "Hagiga" 15a ...18 KB (2,679 words) - 23:31, 19 October 2023
- by 600 B.C.E. had already begun using Babylonian concepts in their calculations. ... The Greeks grafted the names of their own gods onto the Babylonian ...37 KB (5,416 words) - 07:49, 24 November 2022
- to be a Canaanite version of the Babylonian god Marduk and identical ... exodus from Egypt until well after the Babylonian exile in the sixth century ...25 KB (4,203 words) - 05:22, 26 August 2023
- on in Klaus Koch. The Prophets: The Babylonian and Persian Periods. (Philadelphia: ... * Koch, Klaus. The Prophets: The Babylonian and Persian Periods. Philidelphia: ...17 KB (2,714 words) - 00:10, 19 November 2023
- |what end the gods will give me or you. Don't play with Babylonian |- |temptaris numeros. ut melius, quidquid erit, pati. |fortune-telling ...8 KB (1,256 words) - 00:38, 29 November 2023
- Babylonian Talmud: Sanhedrin [http://images.e-daf.com/DafImg.asp?ID ... Babylonian Talmud: Sanhedrin [http://images.e-daf.com/DafImg.asp?ID ...18 KB (2,856 words) - 01:20, 21 April 2023
- [[Image:Talmud Babli bokhylle.jpg|thumb|225px|An edition of the Babylonian ... especially the Mishnah and the Babylonian Talmud, with associated ...19 KB (2,783 words) - 16:56, 21 January 2024
- In the Second Temple period, from the end of the Babylonian Exile ... Rabbi (the Palestinian form) or Rab (the Babylonian form). Whether the title ...21 KB (3,138 words) - 16:07, 7 December 2022
- co-opted as a placeholder in the same Babylonian system. In a tablet unearthed ... The Babylonian placeholder was not a true zero because it was not ...30 KB (4,810 words) - 06:25, 13 June 2023
